"Монгол аман зохиол судлалаас ардын билиг зүйн судлалд"

From Mongolian folklore to folkloric anthropology

Abstract

In this article, the author discusses the contemporary tendency on Mongolian folklore, and most recent development of the world folklore, anthropology and ethnology. It needs to re-think that what we should study in the frame of folklore.

For westerners, they followed the discipline for 400 years that researchers should be distant from their objectives of anthropology and ethnology but today this has been considering by different aspects. By this, the folklorist will be a cultural anthropologist or folkloric ethnologist, who is studying his own culture.

Traditional Mongolian folklore focused on two different parts: the first part is followed by the influence of Russian linguistic and literary study; the other part is the influence of western including ethnology in France. In fact, symbolic anthropology and cultural anthropology in Mongolia have been developing under the name of the Mongolian folkloric study for the last twenty years.